Index

Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

Seeing Red is a tough read. It’s tough because the sheer amount of data gathered from Canadian newspapers ends up, at times, reading like endless lists of information, rather than a coherent narrative, argument, or...

Review by Hadley Friedland

BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 127-28

Friendly Societies in Nanaimo: The British Tradition of Self-Help in a Canadian Coal-Mining Community

By Lynne Bowen

BC Studies no. 118 Summer 1998 | Page(s) 67-92

coal mining social services Nanaimo

Oblate Missionaries and the “Indian Land Question”

By Lynn Blake

BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 27-44

land claims missionaires religion aboriginal people

Baby Stumpy and the War in the Woods: Competing Frames of British Columbia Forests

By Lorna Stefanick

BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 41-68

forestry environment politics

The Extralateral Right in British Columbia and the Western United States: A Comparison of the Mining Law, 1850-1900

By Logan W. Hovis

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 79-97

gold rush mining law United States

Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World

Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia’s North Coast

Review by Nancy Janovicek

BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Pages 148-50

More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria

  In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...

Review by Terry Reksten

| Page(s) 131-133

Interest Group Power and Government Regulation: The Cases of the Mining and Insurance Industries During the Period of New Democratic Party Government in British Columbia, 1972-1975

By Nükhet Kardam

BC Studies no. 60 Winter 1983-1984 | Page(s) 48-74

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia mining government control legislation New Democratic Party

Orienting Canada: Race, Empire and the Transpacific

The history of Canada’s Pacific relations has long been a neglected subject. The general consensus was that Pacific relations were not central to understanding the history of the country and its place in the world....

Review by Laura Madokoro

BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 128-131

Vladimir Krajina: World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer

This book is a major addition to our understanding of Vladimir Krajina’s life and times because it provides a clear context to the life of this remarkable citizen. Jan Drabek’s father and Krajina played different...

Review by Iain Taylor

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 212-214

British Columbia Archaeology in the 1970’s

By Knut R. Fladmark

BC Studies no. 48 Winter 1980-1981 | Page(s) 11-20

archaeology

Early Fur-trade Forts of the Peace River Area of British Columbia

By Knut R. Fladmark

BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 48-65

archaeology fur trade Hudson's Bay Company North West Company Peace River District

Flyover: British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin Coast. An Aviation Legacy

In his latest publication, Chris Harris views the Cariboo, Chilcotin, and Coast region of south central British Columbia, the base for his numerous books, from a new perspective derived from a series of flights over...

Review by Jay Sherwood

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 191-192

A Governor-General’s Views on Oriental Immigration to British Columbia, 1904-1911

By Mary E. Hallett

BC Studies no. 14 Summer 1972 | Page(s) 51-72

immigration chinese japanese people South Asians federal-provincial relations Grey 4th

“The only place likely to do her any good”: The Admission of Women to British Columbia’s Provincial Hospital for the Insane

By Mary-Ellen Kelm

hospitals medical profession women

British Columbia First Nations and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19

By Mary-Ellen Kelm

BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 23-48

epidemics health aboriginal people

Local Referenda and Size of Municipality in British Columbia: A Note on Two of Their Interrelationships

By Adrie van Klaveren

BC Studies no. 8 Winter 1970-1971 | Page(s) 47-50

municipal government

A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada

This is a book about people in small towns in the west, and the rodeos that have provided ways to negotiate their complex social, economic, and cultural relationships with each other and with the animals...

Review by J. Chamberlin

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 189-191

“We are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia

We read this book as the British Columbia government announced that oil and gas development will be banned in the “Sacred Headwaters,” the vast tract of land in North Central British Columbia where the Nass,...

Review by Jillian Ridington

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 224-225

Paleo-Indian Artifacts from the Peace River District

By Knut R. Fladmark

BC Studies no. 48 Winter 1980-1981 | Page(s) 124-35

archaeology Peace River District

“Reckoning with the Machine” : The British Columbia Social Credit Movement as Social Criticism, 1932-52

By Leonard B. Kuffert

BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 9-39

political parties politics Social Credit party

In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness

At last there is a comprehensive biography of Diamond Jenness, perhaps Canada’s greatest anthropologist, and it’s an excellent one. Barnett Richling has risen to the task with a clear understanding of the man, his remarkable...

Review by Robin Ridington

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 222-224

Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History

Historians of British Columbia have devoted considerable attention to how its economy and social geography were shaped by different kinds of transportation, from sailing vessels and trails to wagon roads and railways. However, automobiles and...

Review by Ben Bradley

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 192-193

Dumb Talk: Echoes of the Indigenous Voice in the Literature of British Columbia

By Laurie Ricou

BC Studies no. 65 Spring 1985 | Page(s) 34-47

Carr Emily literature aboriginal people Evans Hubert Watson Sheila